Opinion: Top 18 Hip-Hop Album Intros of 2018

We skimmed the top off the best 2018 Hip hop releases. Honorable mentions include: Cardi B – Get Up Ten (Invasion of Privacy), Takeoff – Martian (The Last Rocket) and Lil Dirk – Treacherous (Signed to the Streets 3). Check it out after the jump. 18. Tory Lanez – Why don’t you love me? (Love me now)

IamSu! had the best chance to make this list. His third effort of 2018, Blessed, comes after Boss(Deluxe) and Solara 06. Without warning IamSu! flows with little pause including talks of buying back his publishing, touring and a new passion for music.

Another Alchemist production. 70s blaxploitation themed record, LocationRemote, calls on Spitta and Gibbs to tell the story. If you told us a looped echoed scream would bring an intro together? Alchemist made us believers by sampling Far East Family Band’s Entering/Times.

According to J. Cole, “I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music.” Although the hip hop community feels he was snubbed for Album of the Year by the Grammy’s, it does not take away from his profound introduction.